Real life of Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire - mental health battle, previous career and children
Happy Valley has returned to BBC One for its third and final season, six years after it last appeared on our screens.
Read more: Happy Valley on BBC One: When it starts, what time it is on, cast and where you have seen them before Between theatre roles, Sarah, 58, worked as a drama tutor at the University of Salford to supplement her income - and did so for around five years while pursuing her acting career. Landing her breakthrough role, Sarah famously played barmaid Raquel Wolstenhulme in the ITV soap Coronation Street from 1991 to 1996 and again in 2000.
Sarah, who began suffering from clinical depression as a teenager, previously told The Scotsman that while shooting Coronation Street she was on medication and considered taking her own life twice. The only people who knew she was struggling were her family as she never told anyone at ITV and continued to show up to work every day.
The star sought help for her mental health when her mother encouraged her to visit a doctor, reports WalesOnline. She says seeking help "gave me my life back". In 2000 she started seeing her now husband former director of BBC North and Chief Creative Officer of BBC Vision Peter Salmon. The couple became engaged and married in 2001.
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